In their answer, the doctors who treated Benitez asserted that application of the public accommodations law to them would violate their right to free exercise of religion under the federal and state constitutions. [read post]

Which gets called out by Chief Judge Kozinski for (1) doing a bad job, and then (2) trying to get out the consequences of this (alleged) malfeasance by convincing -- successfully, I might add -- three district court judges down here (Judges Burns, Benitez, and Collins) to refuse to accept the unconditional guilty pleas of various criminal defendants.No dice, he holds. [read post]

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